The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Era ayitibwa: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuYeekulula1968 okutuuka 1999

In 1997 a British anthropologist-psychiatrist and a Haitian physician published the only clinical study of people identified in Haiti as zombis. They examined three individuals whose families said they had died and been buried years earlier. All three had psychiatric or neurological conditions, and genetic testing showed that at least two were strangers taken in by bereaved families. The paper remains the main medical evidence that the living zombi is a social diagnosis applied to vulnerable, wandering people.1 2

Lwanyisa

Yasooka okuwandiikibwa

1997

Published by Roland Littlewood and Chavannes Douyon in The Lancet, 1997

Gy'ava

Haitian

Hayiti

Ekikireeta

Ebirala

Families attributed each case to sorcery; the investigators diagnosed mental illness, brain damage and learning disability, with mistaken identity in two cases.

Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo

Each had died young after a short illness, been buried, and was 'recognised' by relatives years later.

Engeri gy'atambulamu

Yeekulula

One was noticed walking through a market in a detached, shambling manner.

Yasooka ddi okulabika?

Ensi ey'edda Emirembe egya wakati 1500 okutuuka 1899 1900 okutuuka 1967 1968 okutuuka 1999 2000 okutuuka 2009 2010 okutuuka leero

1997

Published by Roland Littlewood and Chavannes Douyon in The Lancet, 1997

ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

FI, a woman buried beside her house, was identified three years later wandering near her village1 2

WD, dead at 18, was identified by his family at a cockfight eight years after his burial1 2

MM was seen in a town market thirteen years after her death at 181 2

Examination with EEG and CT scans found catatonic schizophrenia, epilepsy with brain damage, and a developmental learning disability1 2

DNA and fingerprint tests showed that two of the three were not the dead relatives at all1 2

The authors did find tetrodotoxin in samples of bokors' powder, but thought misidentification the likelier general explanation1 2

Wandisobodde okumudduka?

Omutendera gw'embiro okusinziira ku ngeri ensibuko gye zimunnyonnyolamu (yeekulula), si kipimo.

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM) nga 3 km/h (1.9 mph)

Ggwe, ng'otambula nga 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

Ggwe, ng'odduka mpola nga 10 km/h (6.2 mph)

Omuntu omukulu omugumu ng'adduka nnyo nga 24 km/h (15 mph)

Omuvuzi wa ggaali ow'embiro nga 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ensibuko

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Liisa ekibinja. Tewali birango, tewali bikulondoola, nga bisasulwa omuntu omu. Akasiimo kakikuuma ku yintaneti.Leka akasiimo

Enfumo okuva mu nsi ze zimu

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937